Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Firsting and the Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Atlantic World -- Part I The Foundations for Firsting in Historiography and Literature -- 1 John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt's Erasure of Native Americans -- 2 The Last of the First? Madness and the Jungle in the Chronicles of the Indies: Lope de Aguirre and His Writing -- 3 Dying in Their Own Minds: Firsting and Lasting in the Early Jesuit Work With the Tupi Language in Brazil -- 4 Literacy and Colonial Beginnings: Inca Garcilaso's Story of the Letter in Context -- Part II Modernity and Unfamiliarity as Firsting Principles -- 5 The Grammar of Inanimacy: Frances Brooke and the Production of North American Settler States -- 6 Firsting and Lasting in the History of Science: Francisco José de Caldas and the Priority Dispute Over Hypsometry -- 7 History and Progress: Regional Identity and the Useable Past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 -- 8 The Afterlife of Settler-Colonial Occupation: Archaeological Excavation as Militarization in the United States-Mexico Borderlands -- Part III Un-Firsting the West -- 9 American Indian Discovery -- 10 Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Experiences of the Colonized Through Visual and Material Culture -- 11 "This Is an Indigenous City": Un-Firsting Early Representations of Vancouver -- 12 Native-American Contributions to Democracy, Marxism, Feminism, Gender Fluidity, and Environmentalism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through which Euro-settlers can be un-firsted, making space for Indigenous experiences in western scholarship.

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